a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief

have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined

a general course along which something has a tendency to develop

a general tendency to change (as of opinion)

a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course

the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations

an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'